Dead Body Found at Bridgeport Holiday Inn

BRIDGEPORT -- Police are investigating an untimely death at the Holiday Inn on Main Street Tuesday afternoon, according to police spokesman Tim Quinn.

The death is being treated as a likely drug overdose, police said.

It was not immediately known where the body was found or who discovered it. Police are waiting to release further details pending notification of next of kin of the person who died, Quinn said.

Earlier in the day police responded to an untimely death in a Bishop Avenue apartment building, police said. In that incident, police received a report from a person living in an apartment below the deceased, who discovered blood dripping through the ceiling. The body was found in the apartment's bathroom and it was not immediately known how the person died, but foul play was not suspected, police said.